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Charles Baker V. Joe Carr Case Study
Charles Baker sued Joe Carr because he explained that the legislature of Tennessee failed to represent urban citizens and overrepresented rural citizens. A law in Tennessee required every district to be redrawn every ten years, but Tennessee had not redistricted since 1901. Baker stated that Urban areas had grown in population and should be represented as equal as rural areas. He also said that urban areas failed to receive “equal protection of the laws” , required by the Fourteenth Amendment.

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